I've actually enjoyed listening to Rob's guest this week - Janice Galloway. She was particularly good this morning on Clara Schuman.
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Music and English at Glesca?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
I think they've had a pretty good choice of guests over the months, in fact. They didn't slide down the slope of fatuous celebrity as the first few weeks of the format seemed to portend - often writers and journalists, some of whom I've heard of, many I haven't. The 'celeb' names have been good choices, by and large e.g. Simon Russell Beale; writer Andrew Martin (railway/underground expert) and journalist Martin Sixsmith spring to mind as interesting recent less-familiar ones. I've sought out their half hour 'slots'
Sarah Walker is acually a slightly better interviewer than Rob C who sticks a bit more audibly to the 'script' and pre-prepared questions, whereas Dr Walker has a better knack of making conversation flow, it seems to me.
This week: Alan Rusbridger, will be worth a listen
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Well said M'Lud - I also have enjoyed the recent selection but wouldn't necessarily agree re Walker v Cowan 2013!Comment
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(brownie points for edited quoteOriginally posted by Caliban View PostThis week: Alan Rusbridger, will be worth a listen
) - I made a point of listening this am as I'm nearly half way through his book Play It Again. It received a slightly patronising review in yesterday's ST....the story of his year and a half dealing with Wikileaks, phone hacking etc. would make a book in itself, but I'm finding the story of his journey with the Chopin Ballade enthralling. And the people he knows, talks to....Perahia, Charles Rosen, Stephen Hough, Sir Claus Moser and many more drop in to the story, which begins with a meeting in N Italy with Alfred Brendel - it obviously helps to be editor of the Grauniad and live in N London 
- and he talks to two neurologists about how the different types of memory work....
As a middle-aged (at the time) returnee to a musical instrument I'm finding it inspirational.Comment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Germaine Greer's been pretty good this week. I think she left poor old Sarah floundering rather!Comment
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Yes a challenging guest, there's been a definite note of "Moving swiftly on" in some of Sarah's replies - bitten off more than she can chew this week! I wonder what Germaine will make of Sarah's choice of music for her.Originally posted by Flosshilde View PostComment
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
Mercifully for Sarah, she lacks a certain other Aussie's liking for the profane...
GG is always great value even when she's talking utter horse manure (not often). She does it with such vigour. Decent musical choices too."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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